I find it interesting that the Pac-12 office grandfathers in previous national championships by new league members Colorado (22) and Utah (20) when proclaiming that the conference has reached 450 NCAA team titles.

But I get it. The more the merrier. And 450 is impressive.

The Pac-12 reached that milestone this week when the University of Southern California defeated Virginia for the men’s tennis championship.

So far during this academic year alone, the Pac-12 tops the nation with eight NCAA championships, three more than the second-place Big Ten.

The CU athletic department also counts two other national championships for the school: 1990 in football and an AIAW-sanctioned women’s skiing title prior to women’s sports coming under the NCAA umbrella in the early 1980s.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.